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Friday, 7 August 2009

It happens to be Mr R’s (hubby’s) birthday today and I couldn’t let this one pass by without baking his favourite cake of all time to celebrate, which just happens to be Malteser Cake! I have baked this cake numerous times for his birthday and it seems to make its honourable appearance once again this year. You see one of hubby’s treats for Sunday afternoon is a family size bag of Maltesers while watching the T.V. I never witness his hand going to bag then to mouth, feeding in those malty chocolate balls or even the slightest crunch, the only evidence that is left is the empty packet! Who am I to keep a man away from his love of Maltesers? Now you can understand why this cake is always on my baking repertoire come his birthday.

This cake originates from Nigella Lawson, which is published in her book “Feast”. I really like Nigella’s books but for me, “Feast” happens to be my favourite of all time books of hers.

This is one of the easiest cakes to make from scratch. A little melting of a few ingredients and combining wet with dry ingredients together, it really is as simple as that. However, the taste for anyone who adores that malt –choco flavour is utterly divine. The sponge rises in the oven like a billowing fluffy spongy cloud riding on high in the sky waiting when baked too be sandwiched together with a scrumptious malt-choc buttercream. The top adorned with the same malt-choc buttercream and shackles of Maltesers positioned around the top. I was lucky enough to find some white Maltesers too, so I rather went to town on placing lots on the top of the cake.

The recipe for this cake is on my Blog [link] one I made earlier for my son’s birthday! Oh yes he inherited the Malteser bug from his dad *giggle*. The only adaption I made this time was to add two extra spoonfuls of cocoa powder to the buttercream.

I will be back with you all as normal in the blogosphere from next week when our holidays have ended :0)

Lastly, take care now and I hope you will raise a glass to celebrate Mr. R’s birthday with me, cheers.

60 comments:

Happy Birthday Mr R!!! Oh my goodness a Malteser cake - brilliant!! I had an obsession with these while we were in France we found the biggest packets I've ever seen in the supermarket and had several competitions to see how many people could get in their mouths at one time. Funnily enough I was planning on including Maltesers in a bake this weekend - we'll see how it turns out!

Feast is my favorite books as well, partly because it reads like you are speaking with an old friend about your favorite foods. Too fun! I would love to try this cake. I really need to add this to my Nigella list! Beautiful cake...and happy birthday to your hubby.

Happy Birthday to your husband from me. The cake looks great! Now that I have moved back to the US, I can't get Maltesers anymore (although there is one brand that is similar, but only sells the chocolate kind). Hope he had a great day.

Rosie, I am glad you mentioned the extra cocoa in the frosting, as I was thinking it looked darker than anything I'd made previously:) I might have to give that option a go next time:) It's popular in our house too - lol and I always buy extra Maltesers as you just know the little assistants I have are going to do the 'one for the cake one for me' trick when topping it! Happy Birthday to your dear:D

I have this Nigella Lawson cookbook and funny thing is that every so often I grab the cookbook off the shelf, open it up to this recipe and stare longingly at the photo. Wow! Now I must make it. Beautiful!

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